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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What revolutionary strategy did Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane use to select the best baseball players?
(a) He hacked the competition's database.
(b) He used a computer algorithm developed by economists.
(c) He posted information on Twitter.
(d) He developed the system of player statistics.

2. Who are many of the volunteers research professors use in their experiments?
(a) Voters.
(b) College students.
(c) Colleagues.
(d) Family members.

3. In a free market, what determines whether a product is good or whether it is bad?
(a) Economic gains.
(b) Company profits.
(c) The customer.
(d) Persuasive marketing tactics.

4. In the modern age, scientific advancements made great strides due two what two factors?
(a) Trust in the future and credit.
(b) Better education and bankers.
(c) The death of religion and economic growth.
(d) Greater social power and individual freedom.

5. Humans can do whatever they choose and are only constrained by what?
(a) Their understanding of technology.
(b) Their access to education.
(c) Their own ignorance.
(d) Their power in society.

6. The rise of humanism meant there was less focus on God and more focus on what?
(a) Technology.
(b) Humans.
(c) Feelings.
(d) Liberalism.

7. Humanism claims that instead of looking to a supreme being or authority to define meaning, people should rely on _______.
(a) Evolutionary principles.
(b) What society believes is right.
(c) Scientific advancement.
(d) Their own feelings and desires.

8. What animals detect the world around them using ecolocation?
(a) Moths.
(b) Whales.
(c) Bats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

9. The scientific formula led to breakthroughs in disciplines such as astronomy, physics, and medicine, but it could not deal with what issues?
(a) Religious observance.
(b) Questions of value and meaning.
(c) Free will.
(d) Social trends.

10. What has replaced deploying large armies in today's military?
(a) Drones and cyber-worms.
(b) Misleading social media information.
(c) Drones and satellite photos.
(d) Cybersecurity and satellite jamming.

11. How are modern teenagers acquiring an understanding of capitalism?
(a) Through the influence of marketing.
(b) Through civilization-style strategy games that focus on investment and growth.
(c) Through their parent's examples and experiences.
(d) Through use of social media with people from other countries.

12. What device is the U.S. army developing to improve a soldier's decision-making process?
(a) An immersion chamber.
(b) Implanted computer chips.
(c) An attention helmet.
(d) Virtual reality goggles.

13. After World War I, what social movement did President Woodrow Wilson begin to support?
(a) Anti-slavery.
(b) Selective service.
(c) Women's sufferage.
(d) Civil rights.

14. The expression, "The customer is always right" is an example of humanist _____________.
(a) Economics.
(b) Politics.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Ethics.

15. If we devote ourselves solely to economic growth, what social structure could suffer?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Family ties.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. A Mattersight algorithm uses what information to direct callers to the best customer service person for them?

2. For what purpose is the U.S. military experimenting with implanting computer chips in the brains of soldiers?

3. What is the title of Jorge Luis Borges' story about the narrating self?

4. According to Harai, where is the most interesting place in the world from a religious standpoint?

5. Where does Harari say new religions will come from?

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